“Obesity is a terrorist that does not
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Depression and Obesity work together
to take over your life and destroy you! You have to declare war on terror and
fight back! The only way to defeat obesity is to lose weight, which is hard
when you are depressed; but you can combat depression everyday.
Since I spoke to the recruiters at the
beginning of this month I have been depressed and that has set me back. I know
I need to lose weight and to reach my goals, but I had convinced myself that my
goals were not worth the fight anymore since everything keeps getting in the
way. It took me almost a full month to get over this depression.
What makes depression bad
If you Google what is depression you
get two definitions
- Severe despondency and dejection, typically
felt over a period of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and
inadequacy
- The act of lowering something or pressing
something down.
So what does all that mean?
While if you translate definition one
from geek speak to Standard English it says Severe sadness felt over a period
of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy.
That is a little easier to track but
still could use some clarification to explain why it is bad. To assist in this
clarification I will use the example from my own life
I have been sad over the last 2-3
weeks because I am inadequate (not good enough) for the SEALs and my ability to
do what I want seems more and more hopeless.
This is bad because it caused me to
not want to do anything and become complacent. I have felt like I can never do
anything better than my current job, despite my bosses boss thinking I am good
enough for a promotion.
I stopped exercising, I stopped eating
right, I stopped trying!
I had fun at my National Guard
experience, and despite this I put myself in a state of perpetual failure.
How did I overcome this?
I was talking to my best friend that I
have known since the second grade via text message while I was bored at work
and his failed attempt to motivate me didn’t quite fail!
I commented to him that I was
depressed to which he responded:
“Don't be depressed you can always go
for corrections with me.”
I was like:
"How is that supposed to make me
depressed? Instead of moving out of Arizona, seeing the world, shooting at
evil, and generally just being awesome. You get to stay in Arizona be
overheated and an overpaid babysitter.”
He of course took offence and said
that I should slit my wrists now if I am going to think like that. Drama Queen!
I told him to think about it:
“If I were to become a corrections
officer I could be a corrections officer or a supervisor of correction
officers. If I were to go into the military I could be a helicopter mechanic,
helicopter pilot, or I could go into some sort of computer field like
cryptology or network security. Someday I could get vision correction surgery
and become a jet pilot.”
At that point I realized that I was
being stupid and that even if I can’t be a SEAL I can still be awesome, that I
should not be giving up just because a physical issue pushed me out of my goal.
My Advice
Talk to someone: A true friend will never turn you away!
Anyone: Doctors, Teachers, Counselors, Priests, Mommy, Daddy, Security at Walmart!
Pick up the phone book and dial random
numbers till someone is willing to help you if that is what it takes.
Don't give up! DO NOT EAT THAT DOUGHNUT!
Sometimes pushing yourself to be more
awesome… to keep striving for the goal even though you cannot obtain it will
still keep you motivated and push the depression out.
Keep yourself on track no matter how
much you want to give up, cry, or die.
If you give up then the terrorists
win!
Do you want to let the terrorists win?
If you said yes to that you are on the
wrong blog!
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Have a Happy and Healthy Week!
Thomas Gould!
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Unfortunately I have failed, I have been in a funk since I went to see the recruiters back in June, I have not been motivated to push and have not been sticking to my diet or any kind of work out routine. I have actually gained 5 lbs since the recruiter which puts me further behind.
This was an inevitable failure. I was pushing my self really hard and driving too hard toward a goal that I knew was possibly unattainable (Seal training) and then when I failed my vision test I went into a tail spin of binge eating, laziness, and COOKIES!!! (lots and lots of delicious cookies)
